[Uw-ruby] DOM or Stream parsing?

[Mark Holton]

Came across this tonight: XmlSimple library ...in the 'xml-simple' gem...
parses an XML document into a Ruby hash.

Guessing, and from what I read, there are no performance saving when sucking
in the XML, but the resulting object is easier to use -- ends up as nested
structure of Ruby hashes and arrays.

http://xml-simple.rubyforge.org/

:Holton


On Nov 17, 2007 11:44 PM, Garrick West <garrick at acm.org> wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
> I figured I'd send this to the list as others might be interested in your
> response:
>
> Wow.  That iTunes library is a bit of a monster to pull in with DOM, but
> it seems to work (at least on my system;).  The DTD is almost as simple as
> you can get, so it's not it would be too hard to do Stream parsing, but I
> question the value of doing so If you're not concerned about the load time.
>  It takes 54 seconds on my 2nd gen MacBook Pro using REXML, and I've seen
> some form posts googling around suggesting libxml is faster,
> but can be a pain to set up (possibly dated?).
>
> Thoughts?
> --Garrick West
>
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